The problem is: Are these numbers going to settle?" A decade after the Roman Catholic Church in the United States was shaken by revelations of widespread sexual abuse of minors by priests, a similar phenomenon is sweeping Germany.
Today Intel agreed to pay rival chipmaker AMD $1.25 billion to settle a raft of ongoing litigation going back decades.
Antietam, at the dawn of modern warfare, was meant to settle a civil conflict, one that had followed decades of deliberation, debate, and negotiation.
For the third time in a decade, New York City has agreed to pay millions of dollars to settle a lawsuit stemming from the illegal strip searches of thousands of nonviolent prisoners.
An elite Brooklyn private school agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by former students accusing the school of covering up decades of sexual abuse of hundreds of boys by a star football coach.
He demanded last month that the parties reach an agreement now that a decade has passed since a federal judge ordered reforms to settle a police brutality lawsuit.
"I don't have old scores to settle or decades of cloakroom deals that I have to defend".
"I don't have old scores to settle or decades of cloak room deals that I have to defend," he said.
In this view, the paramilitary forces would then be defeated by American and British troops or destroyed by Shiite Muslims eager to settle scores after decades of repression.
No, he's a bona fide leading man, ready to settle into a couple decades of stardom.
